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The Breadbox Band is a quirky group that sounds like Nine Inch Nails meets Bob Marley. Their music is easy to groove with, as many have been enjoying through Electronic Arts’ The Sims games.

Composed of five members with different influences, Breadbox infuses its crowds with music that promotes high spirits and positive energy. Their sound track titled N is featured on the latest Sims project, The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack, and can be heard on the band’s myspace page.

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Last Sunday (July 29, 2007) at ComiCon, Rare announced that it is developing an enhanced remake of Viva Piñata for the DS. The new game will build off the original Xbox 360 garden/pet sim with wi-fi features, new creatures and plenty of touchscreen control options for designing, nurturing, instructing, protecting and caring for the piñatas and the garden.

All of the piñatas from the 360 game will arrive on the handheld intact, along with some new…

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We’ve just received more information and six additional exclusive screenshots for the naval sim game, PT Boats: Knights of the Sea.

Russian game company, Akella, also sent a good chunk of info about this RTS/action game set during WWII. Most of the boats in the game are part of “mosquito fleets,“ meaning they are small, fast and will likely make for a pretty atypical sim game in terms of speed. Also, ou’ll be able to swap between sim and RTS modes and a free-roam camera so you cna check out the action everywhere at any angle.

“A gamer can take command of a boat and control each member of the crew – captain, gunner or commander. He can steer the wheel, shoot down aircrafts using machine guns or view the situation through binoculars. The player can take command of a group of vessels. While advancing in rank you’ll get more boats and warships under your command… game scenarios development rests on authentic battles and military operations while the built-in encyclopedia provides a thorough reference on personalities, events and technical aspects.“

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The latest version of Ship Simulator for PC has shipped to stores in the UK and Scandinavia and is also available for download through Amazon and the game’s site. The boxed version should be on US shelves in September 2007.

The game lets you take the captain’s seat and steer ships of various speeds and sizes through real-world ports and waterways. You can also switch between overhead, captain’s seat and front-of-the-boat views to get good looks at the water and land as you pass by (or crash). The game also has decent ...

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Sure, you might be sick of WWII shooters by now but Akella has taken a different course with PT Boats: Knights of the Sea. Produced in cooperation with Nvdia, this game is a naval action simulator where you captain various water vessels in WWII-based sea battles.

The games three modes will allow gamers to play through as either a typical RTS game, a tactical action game or a naval sim, battling against planes, PT boats, destroyers and minesweepers (to name a few). The game will run on PCs with DirectX 9 or 10.

I received an email from Akella that gave the following description of the game, a hint as to its development along with several exclusive screenshots ...

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I’ve been contacting a few game companies to find out any news, information, favorite recipes, any friggin’ thing I can about their E3 announcements.

The hard part is that they all keep rather tight-lipped, reserving all announcements for the Expo, causing a chaotic cluster of information for everyone to pick through, interpret and digest.

Here’s an email I received from RedOctane (it was truly nice of them to even reply):

“We are going to be showing the newest installation of Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero III, at E3. There will be a couple of surprises in the game, but nothing that I can share before the show. “

The bit of truly useful information in that email was that the game will, at least for now, be called Guitar Hero III. It’ll likely be just that plain but, just for fun, here are a few proposed names for the next installment of everyone’s favorite air guitar style game…

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